Rediscovering old books about pop

All posts tagged: Eric Burdon

Born Under a Bad Sign by Tony Palmer and Ralph Steadman, foreword by John Lennon William Kimber, 192pp, 1970 In 1967, Huw Wheldon, then Controller of Programmes at BBC Television, summoned a young Cambridge graduate and film-maker called Tony Palmer to discuss a commission. Palmer would eventually go on to make the pop music history series All You Need Is Love, but at that point in his career his sole musical contribution to the output […]